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Seriously purchasing two stager compressor for spraying1/16
Hello group! I want to purchase an EMAX silent air compressor for lacquer spraying. I'm presently using an Apollo HVLP sprayer so I don't know much about getting started with a two stage compressor. If I wanted to spray lacquers, lacquer bases, conversion varnish and acrylic paints what continuous CFMs would I need? Also I like to get information on airline from compressor to pot and of course moisture control. Thank you!
Short answer: depends on your air requirements. Is it just you, or will your compressor have to feed 2 helpers blazing away with air sanders? Also depends on what kind of gun or pump you'll use. AAA pumps like the Kremlin EOS don't use a huge amount of air, considerably less than an HVLP gun & pressure pot in my experience. A rule told to me by a compressor salesman (so take it with a teaspoon of NaCl) is that if your compressor is kicking on more than 6 times per hour, you should move up to a screw compressor. As for moisture control, you could start with a dessicant type like the Devilbiss CT30. Not as expensive as a refrigerated dryer, but not as effective either. Depends on what your climate is.
No, It's just me spraying and no one else will be using the compressor.
Do you really require something that big
7.5 hp is a lot of compressor for a one man show. I have a 6 person shop running on that size. But hey, if you have the cash flow to pull the trigger, now you have room to grow.
I have a old (built in the 80's)5 HP Curtis with a 80 gallon tank that's rated @ 17cfm @175psi (when new) that I got for $300.00. I operate a 1 man custom finish shop using a array of spray equipment some consuming 16cfm and have never been short of air...that said if the Curtis ever dies I'd consider (dream of?) buying what your looking at
Just in case my response was a bit too cryptic...a quality used 5-7.5hp reciprocating 2 stage, 3 phase air compressor from your local craigslist are usually a great bang for the buck, 50-80% off a new one...I have used my $300.00, 30 year old one every day for 7 years without issue and my bet is that I will retire before it does.
I always buy new equipment; I never consider used. To be honest with myself and considering with some of you guys said I'm not quite sure if I need 7.5hp or 25 CFM. Can I use a Kremlin 15C25 to spray for lacquers on furniture grade wood products and expect no orange peel? Very interesting.
Some other information for you. I would agree with the other post that you're probably way over buying for the size of your operation. I personally heard several times from our compressor rep that if you over by and you put a screw compressor in for a shop and it winds up barely running that it's actually worse for the compressor then you can imagine and you can have problems. Screw compressors are made to run a lot. And if youve got a shop where you're spraying just by yourself that compressor is probably almost never going to cycle depending on the tank size.
I'd agree with the other posts about a large two-stage recip. We have four men in the shop we've got a Quincy 7.5 hp 80 gallon running around 27 cfm's at 175. We have a refrigerated dryer and a really expensive coalescing oil filter. I don't think we could outrun the compressor if we tried.
In my opinion, if you're spraying, quality of air as opposed to quantity of air would be more your concern. I'd invest in a good refrigerated dryer a modest compressor and good filtration before I'd ever go to a screw.
Mark, great information concerning rotary screw damage due to not running long. I just got off the phone with my lacquer supplier and he is also recommending the Kremlin EOS. He also said that the Kremlin EOS is the industry standard. Since it's just me doing the spraying maybe the Kremlin is the best and all I need.
A rotary screw compressor is meant to run. It likes to have load on it. When it cycles from loan to unload is when it has the chance to put oil in the lines. Depending on the machine it will unload and turn off eventually. Probably not right for what you are doing.
I like used equipment sometimes. Depending on the machine it is a no brainer. Like a shaper, if it looks OK, bearings are cheap. A compressor I am a little leary of. Did they change the oil? We have sold our old compressors as we have grown and we keep meticulous records of maintenance. When we sell the machine one of the photos provided is the maintenance record. I think it adds value. Beyond that there is no way to know.
For you a compressor is the heart of the operation. It goes down you are down.
As others have said, clean dry air is important. Don't skimp on the treatment of the air.
Good luck.
I'm very happy with my Kremlin 15C25 using WB pigment Lacquers. Installed a DeVilbiss CamAir CT30 Series Desiccant Air Dryer/Filter System, Kremlin fluid heater and 4.5 cfm compressor.
Alright, now I'm starting to get this organized in my mind. I believe I'm going to go with a Kremlin 10-C18. My new question is what size air compressor do I need to supply it?
Of course, I want to get something quiet like a rotary screw but someone mentioned that if it's not running all the time damage might incur to it. As you know I'm a one-man band and I only spray about five days out of the month.
Bruce, thanks for posting, very interesting set of you have. Is that the compressor you use to supply your Kremlin?
Hello yes this is the compressor I use but recommend a vertical 8 cfm model as they are fairly economical. I would also recommend a Kremlin15C25 if your using WB products
Hello Bruce and Thank you for getting back. There's a lot of information I would like to learn from you. I've been studying your pictures and the things you have mentioned especially the Kremlin fluid heater!! I also agree with you about the Kremlin15C25. Lately I've been spraying a lot of white base, pigment lacquer and of course every once in a while I spray conversion varnish and acrylic paint. When I get everything together I would like to chat with you so that I can learn how to create a set up like you have. But for now I like to continue chatting with you and the group concerning the purchases I will be making it very soon. Thank you!
Hello Mike I setup a remote setup for the Kremlin inside my paint booth.
Can anybody recommend a reliable company to purchase the Kremlin EOS?
where are you located.
I'm located in Pennsylvania but with online shopping that does not matter.
Thank you!
Bruce you said 8 cfm but at what PSI?
I picked up my EOS 15 from my Sherwin Williams dealer (not to brag, but it was a screaming deal during an exhibition, darn near half price. Ok I'm bragging). You might consider getting a pump and gun setup that you can get parts from locally. Gun tips, o-rings, fluid hoses, they go bad at the worst possible moment.
Hello Mike for example Home Depot has a cast iron vertical belt drive A/c for around $800, should meet all your needs. One draw back it is stationary.Husky 60 gallon single stage stationary electric air compressor features a cast iron, oil lubricated pump. Pump features include a cast iron crankcase & cylinder body, aluminum head & valve plate which allows for better heat dissipation, durable stainless steel reed valves, and an oil level sight glass with easily accessible oil fill. For maximum performance and efficiency the Husky 60 gallon runs on a heavy duty induction 230 volt motor. 155 psi max operating pressure allows the user optimum tool performance.
CFM at 40 psi is 13.4 and CFM at 90 psi is 11.5
Bruce, I think the same time you went to Home Depot I went to Lowes. This is the one I was looking at, at Lowe's.
The air usage for the Kremlin is 4 cfm max
Bruce, the one from Lowes is the one I'm going to buy. I have two questions for you.
try schweitzer and crossom for kremlin.
no need for a two stage compressor, second stage only raises the pressure rating of the compressor, so just a thought more pressure less cfm , less pressure more cfm so if you can find a deal on a single stage you are much better off, their is nothing in your shop that needs more than 100psi, in fact if you want to save the life on your compressor turn down the pressure switch and your machine will cycle much less and last longer.
as far as pumps, i have moved away from kremlin, parts too expensive and now their are many good systems to choice from, binks, cat, graco etc, i have had them the work just fine, but not worth the premium they get, when it comes down to it, i get a good finish and my spare parts cost is less but everyone has their own opinion.
be sure you put a regulator near the outlet of your compressor, set it at 90psi and don't skimp on the airline size that you use, ie spiral hoses and 1/4 inch air lines that is where you lose a lot of air pressure
also be sure to put a particulate filter afer the decissicant dryer because the dust from the beads can and does go downstream towards the gun
good luck
herb j
Thanks Herb, all good info!
Hello I use a mixer water control valve to flush 80 deg water (variable temp) and connect to the blue valve via the pump filter. I then easily flush the filter, heater and lines with the gun removed into a 5 gal pail. You separately flush the pump using the pump itself.
Bruce, I'm guessing you have your heater hooked up so that you can bypass it or use it when needed. Is that right?
No bypass as I use it all the time, easy to bypass as required
Bruce, I noticed that there are two different one past fluid heaters. One being 115v and the other 230v. What is the difference besides voltage? I also noticed that you have the 115v.
By the way thank you so much for taking such excellent pictures and displaying them. They will really help when I make my installation. You got a really, really spotless set up!!!
Mike I choose the 110v version in case I need to spray away from the shop
Bruce, what manufacture and the product of water based lacquer do you like?
I use a WB Sherwin Williams Kem Aqua plus pigmented lacquer. Can be tinted most colours
Bruce, thanks for that info.
Bruce, you have two filters to the left and right of your Devilbliss CT-30. What are they? And may I ask you for another picture of your complete set up so that I can follow the hoses coming out of the compressor and finishing at the gun. I don't want to ask too much but I hope this is possible. Just want to make sure when I order everything this coming week it's all done properly from filters, hoses and others. Thank you!
I installed a 1/2" filter/separater on the inlet and outlet of air dryer. You probably can get away with using just one on the inlet
Correction filter/seperater regulator
I would seriously consider the slightly bigger 5 hp 80 gallon vertical 220v.
We ran this compressor in the small shop for 10 years. If you read the cfm and have a bit of experience you will realize how quickly a hi transfer gun will drain the tank. If you are spraying a kitchen its often necessary to give the compressor a rest when spraying lots of cabinets. The compressor would get really hot.
80 gallons is not that much tank.
Adam, Thank you for your input! I believe I'm sold on the Home Depot Husky. I looked at it yesterday at Home Depot and I can see what Bruce was talking about as far as heat dissipation. It has three separate pumps spread out to dissipate heat. I'll probably will be picking it up this week along with the ordering of the Kremlin EOS 15C25. I just decided I'm going to use the 50 foot of copper pipe from the compressor outlet to the Kremlin.
Bruce, what's your opinion of this filter: https://www.intlairtool.com/filter-regulator-lubricators-frls/aro-piggyback-filter
Thank you!
Mike I was unable to see the item but one thing you don't want is a lubricator. You want clean dry air for the Kremlin and spraying. I used large bore 1/2" filter/regulator.
Breuce, disregard that previous link there is something wrong with it. Just Google this and let me know what you think?
Yes Mike that is the one, around $60 to $70 on eBay.
I want to install a regulator about 1 foot from the compressor. As you know I'm going to be hooking the Kremlin to it and of course an air gun. There's two different regulators. One is non-relieving and the other is relieving. I don't know the difference which one should I get?
Well, I pulled the trigger.
Kremlin EOS 15C25 wall mount with pump outlet filter. 668-140-001
I plan on installing 50 feet or more of cool down pipe between the compressor and the first piggyback filter regulator. I'm going to buy a hand truck and amount 3/4 inch plywood to the back and base of the hand truck. On the back of the hand truck I'll set up the Kremlin rig and for the base of the hand truck a place for 1 gallon and 5 gallon buckets.
Thank you group for all your help and pointing me in the proper direction. Hopefully now I'll be able to spray perfect finishes without looking. hehe!
A hint on the CT30 dessicant filter: it's got an indicator that turns from green to yellow after it decides it's full of water. You can take the dessicant bag out and bake it in a low temp oven for a few hours to dry it out. Better than buying their expensive refill kits.
Jared Emery, I love it. I was going to buy an extra bag along with a few other things like a spray gun rebuilding kit but I thought I would wait a while before I make those purchases. It's nice to know I can dry the bag out in my oven. Great group here! Thank you!
just wanted to add something, under no circumstances should you use pvc pipe, although I know I will get a lot of push back here, it is not allowed by osha, the other reason is it will soften in the pressence of compressed air oil vapors, yeah I know it says it will take the air pressure etc and I know most will say I have never had a problem but let me tell it pvc used on airlines will shatter like glass, causes a very loud boom, so just my two cents.......know of a shop who got sued for having it when a worker was injured when it popped., found this quick info, but other stuff is also out there
good luck
Plastic pipe used for compressed air service must be designed for such service by the manufacturer. Examples of such pipe include high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS). Compressed air piping systems that use plastic pipe must also be project speci c i.e., suited for a particular application or project and installed by a competent person.
herb j, thanks for your concerns and point well taken. The PVC is just temporary for about a year or so and after that I'll replace it with something better when I have time. For right now I was just trying to save some money because I spent so much and of course I'm going to want to get some more tips, a gun rebuilding kit and so on. I'm going to readjust the pressure so that it only builds to 100psi. No need for 150psi. Thanks again for checking in!
To all members in this thread please reply back to this. Yesterday my 80 gallon Home Depot, Husky air compressor motor burned up within 30 seconds of starting. Yes the wire was done by a qualified electrician. Without going into detail about it I would like to know from everyone what exact compressor they are presently using for their Kremlin? (I'll be using Kremlin 15C25 with one pass fluid heater) After the incident yesterday I spoke to a qualified air compressor dealer who would like to see me with a Gardner Denver but he only stocks 60 gallons ones. I'm not sure if 60 gallons is enough because before I spray each piece I like to airgun the product a little bit just before spraying. Please reply back and let me know what you are using and if you think a 60 gallon would do it. The Gardner Denver 60 gallons that I'm thinking about getting is not two stage. Thank you group!
Why panic and buy a different compressor maybe u just got a bad one. You can run ur pump system off of a 3hp compressor non of the aaa units use that much air
Slow down you dont need to rethink everything , ur going down the right road! My two cents replace ur pvc with 3/8 Id air hose with full flow quick disconnects it will be much safer down the road and ur system will work just fine
Herb Johnson, thanks for your reply. I'm thinking about going to Lowes tomorrow and Just picking up this one: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-60-Gallon-Electric-Vertical-Air-Compressor/3370356
Yes I did panic yesterday especially when I asked everyone to reply.
Herb Johnson, I took your device today and went to Home Depot and bought another Husky 80gal air compressor today. Success! This one works fine. I ran it about 10 minutes and check the motor and it was cool as a cucumber.
Good news on the compressor. Make sure you follow the directions on changing the oil. I would take another deep breath and reconsider the pvc. There is a reason why so many people on ww warn about the dangers. You will have 120psi in a tube that is usually tested by plumbers at 10psi. If it holds 6 psi overnight its good for drain pipes in a house.
In my personal experience, if it goes on the wall temporarily it will remain in service until it either breaks or we move shops.
No pvc. Buy anything else. Lengths of black iron pipe, copper, or pex plastic. You could go to homie dopie and buy pex and sharkbite fittings if you can't borrow or own a pex tool. 3/4" is the go. id is what matters.
Well group everything came in today. I just have a couple questions about the pump and what these outlets are for and a black hose on the gauge housing? Here's three pictures with a pointer showing what I'm talking about. One looks like a bleeder valve but I don't know what it's for or how to work it. The other one looks like a breathing port but I'm not sure if anything connects to that either. On the bottom left corner of the gauge housing there is a black tubing. What is that for? Please let me know what they are because I cannot find any literature about them at all. Thank you!
Adam, thanks for the good information. I will definitely keep an eye on the oil and in a few months or so I'll change to PVC over to something a lot safer. Thanks again!
Hello Mike the fitting is your air inlet to the pump (air motor), hookup air to the remote regulator and run the 3/8" hose(included) from there to the air inlet fitting at the pump (air motor)
The other fitting is used to drain seal lubricating oil from the reservoir . You will occasionally want to drain and refill the reservoir. DO NOT run the pump without having oil in the reservoir
Bruce, thank you for that. I'm glad you mentioned oil reservoir. No I did not start it yet and I'm not going to start it until I know for sure everything is done right. Kremlin does not send any directions but only CDs and two of them are broken. I called Kremlin tech support and Kyle email me the directions but they are just pictures without any written instructions. Very weird considering the price of these units. Anyway I'm going to call Kremlin right now and ask about the oil in the reservoir. It's funny I un-screwed the reservoir screw and nothing came out. Glad to see you back! I'll send pictures later on today of the unit hooked up with my makeshift handtruck.
Hello Mike I will email my file on the Kremlin pump, they ship it dry and you add the Kremlin oil after, I'm sure they must have shipped some with your order. I have a ton of parts for the 15C25 ie pump seals and Kremlin Xcite rebuild kits
Well group I took your advice and everything is hooked up but not running yet. I'll go through all the pictures directions and maybe a few more questions with you guys before I start it up. But anyway I feel very confident I hooked everything up properly and even kept the lowest id air pipe size no smaller then 3/8'' right to the air inlet at the Kremlin. Here's some pictures for ya.
Kremlin EOS 15C25
Kremlin EOS 15C25
Hello Mike it looks like Xmas came early :-)
Also if you slide out the plastic window on the pump you will see the oil reservoir for shaft and seal lubrication. Fill to 1/8" from the top and monitor the level
Add a easy access compressor tank drain and drain daily
Bruce, they are some nice presents I bought for myself. A lot of money spent but I know it's well worth it. In a short period of time I'll swab out the PVC. Yes I filled the oil reservoir up today and I understand what to look for now.
I'm not sure what wire is the hot wire in this picture. These are the wires for the paint heater. Can you tell me which wire is the hot wire? The green wire with the yellow stripe I'm sure it is the ground. The blue and brown wire I'm just not sure which one is the hot.
Bruce, I didn't put an easy access drain on the compressor. Look to the left of the compressor and you will see a 1/4'' copper pipe with the white PVC pipe and a valve at the top. Works very well.
Green is ground


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May 15, 2009
Listen To Me
As part of its "Web Sox Nation" segment, TBS has been inviting three Red Sox bloggers to talk about a topic being discussed at their sites. The segment airs at 9:55 AM and each blogger will be on for a minute or so. If you can't listen, I'll have a link to the audio later.
11 comments:
- nixon33 said...
HOLY SHIT, I've had this show on my auto record since it's 1st episode. Tell Buck he a cunt!
- May 15, 2009 at 11:31 AM
- allan said...
From what I'm told and what I saw in the archived video from last week, it's Felger only. Sorry.
- May 15, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- nixon33 said...
Still, tell Felgy to pass the message along!
- May 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Amy said...
Very cool, Allan. I will be on a plane to DC in the morning so will miss it live, but I will look forward to the link.
- May 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- The Omnipotent Q said...
I was selected as a panelist for The Baseball Show tomorrow, but they didn't mention anything to me about speaking on the program. I'm really looking forward to it...
- May 15, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- accudart said...
cool dude! I'm working but I'll check out the link as well.
- May 15, 2009 at 2:16 PM
- allan said...
Q: I got that email/link too and asked the producer about it. It will let you "chat" during the show with whoever else got an invite. You aren't part of the on air program.
But if you have not signed up to be on the Web Nation list and get called, go to that link!
- May 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- laura k said...
"Still, tell Felgy to pass the message along!"
LOL. This is funny to imagine. "Excuse me, Mike, before I go, I wonder if you could a mesage to Buck for a Joy of Sox reader..."
- May 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM
- The Omnipotent Q said...
Thanks for the info about The Baseball Show, Allan. I am on the Web Nation list (as there is a link for me on the site), so maybe on another day I'll get the call...
- May 15, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- The Omnipotent Q said...
Were you on the show, Allan? I listened to the entire program and didn't hear the segment. I did enjoy being a panelist on the online chat...
- May 16, 2009 at 8:52 AM
- allan said...
I assume I was. It was supposed to be on between 9:55 and 10:00. We taped it around 8:20 or so. I didn't get a chance to listen online, though.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Food Production in Small Spaces: Beans on a Fence
This year I promised to discuss food production in small spaces on my blog. A lot of people wouldn't consider our 2/3 acre residential lot to be a small space, and I have to admit that I don't really feel cramped here most of the time so far as food production goes. Between the huge detached three car garage and three fully grown shade trees that dominate the front yard, plus the house itself, we're left with about 1/3 of an acre to really work with. Three years into our serious food production project we still haven't fully utilized all the space we have available to us, and what we do use we haven't used to maximum effect. But I'm working on it year by year.
One of the crops that I've enjoyed growing is pole beans. We're not big fans of green beans, so we select varieties that produce good soup beans. Beans are amazingly unfussy plants once they have established themselves. They aren't too picky about soil quality since they make their own fertilizer by fixing nitrogen from the air. Since I don't have to harvest beans that I intend to dry at any particular time, I can ignore the bean pods as they form, plump up, and then shrivel and dry. I like a plant that doesn't demand harvesting when there are so many other things to attend to. Pole beans, as the name indicates, like to climb. For the space-constrained gardener, there are upsides and downsides to this trait. On one hand, they don't require much in terms of (horizontal) square footage in the garden; on the other, they are quite capable of shading out things behind them if you plant them densely and give them the support they want. I've found though that the harvest of dried beans from one bean plant is fairly small. So I gave some thought to expanding the number of plants we could grow.
This is how my comparatively generous land allowance brings me to strategies for small space growing. I'm guessing that many people with limited space for food production have fences or other structures around the space they do have. (Fire escapes, perhaps?) Fences make great support for pole beans, and the beans won't do wooden fences any harm. They only latch on to the surface of whatever they climb, rather than drilling into it, as ivy will. If you have a slatted fence or any fence that is not perfectly tight, such that no light passes through it, pole beans will love it. Obviously, you can use the fence line that is pole-ward (the fence on the north side of your property, which faces south - if you're in the northern hemisphere, and just the opposite if you're in the southern hemisphere). In that case, you would plant the beans right up against the fence, but still inside your yard. Any shading issues would be your neighbor's problem, though fences already cast shadows, so it's probably no issue at all.
A good trick though is to also use the fence line that is sun-ward. That means planting just on the outside of your fence line, and it will mean the beans cast a heavier shade from that fence onto your property. Provided that you have good relations with your neighbors and physical access to the outside of your own fence, this shouldn't be problematic. In the US, at least, it is likely that the little bit of space just beyond your fence line belongs to your property anyway, since most zoning codes require a small set-back when fences are erected. That means that if you plant right up against the fence, even though you're outside of your own yard, you're still working your own property. I hope this all makes sense for you, spatially speaking.
Since I'm writing about some of these space-saving techniques the same year I'm trying them myself, I don't have any pictures that really show what the techniques might achieve. But I don't want to wait to write about this until my beans are tall, and twined around the fence and bearing their purple pods. I'd rather share this now and hope that some of you might get your beans into the ground this year. It's not too late in most parts of the US at least. The picture at the top of my post shows the fence enclosing our property with little bean seedlings beginning to grow. I'm standing on my neighbor's long driveway, and through the slatted fence you see a bit of our backyard. This is the south-facing side of the fence along our south property line.
As the seedlings grow a bit more, I'll begin to train them to the fence. All they'll need is the suggestion of where to grow. I'll just tuck a tendril from each plant between a gap in the fence, and the plant will begin to grow up the vertical surface, twining around and around each upright board in the fence. My guess is that the plants will put most of the bean pods and leaves on the south side of the fence to maximize solar exposure. The picture above only shows a short stretch of beans I've planted this year. I've found in past years that it takes quite a few plants to produce a good quantity of dried beans. So when I planted I put two beans in most of the holes. I think the plants that germinate and survive will be able to share the space nicely. I'll try to post an update later in the summer when the beans have grown up the fence and I have a sense for how this project is working out.
Of course, if you prefer green beans to dried beans, you can use the same technique. You'll get a larger volume and heavier harvest weight with green beans, since you'll be eating the whole pod and harvesting when they're still full of water. If you have a slatted fence that would present problems for a climbing plant, you could consider hanging netting on or over the fence, or placing a length of hardware cloth or wire caging along the fence to give the beans some purchase.
If you're using this technique for beans or any other crop, I'd love to hear about it. Please let me know.
More food production in small spaces:
Honey bees
Fig trees in containers
20 comments:
- Unknown said...
I love seeing people use thier yards in the most productive ways possible. Surely you have heard about the Dervais family in Pasadena Calif. and what they have done with their lot. If you have not you have to check them out at
http://urbanhomestead.org/. I have no affiliation with them I am just a fan. They have some pretty amazing you tube videos out there as well. Can't wait to hear about your veggies as they begin to be harvested. Happy planting!!
- June 3, 2010 at 6:38 AM
- Sense of Home Kitchen said...
We have a small yard and this year expanded the garden to about 300 square feet, not nearly enough to provide for all our food for a year, but a good start.
Anyway, I make use of this method by placing my peas along the garden fence, as they grow up the fence they are very easy to pick. This year I made a teepee with bamboo sticks and am attempting to grow cucumbers up the poles, hope it works since the garden is too small to grow sprawling vines.
- June 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- Rachelle said...
That's how I'm growing peas, cukes, and tomatos; we have a large, completely fenced yard, and when we first moved in, I was cramming everything into a relatively small garden space (20x40).
This year, I've planted everything that might be enticed to climb, along the edges of my fences.
Now if only it would stop raining.
- June 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- jake said...
Great idea. We are doing similar with our raspberries and blackberries. Letting them mingle up the fence so our neighbors can have some as well.
"Beans on a Fence" sounds better than "pants on da ground". :D
- June 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Jennifer Montero said...
Vertical gardening is THE new gardening trend - you're ahead of the curve!
- June 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM
I do lots and lots of trellising, and try to stack this function even further by placing containers and string trellises around my patio so that I get food, shade, and privacy all at once. I grow pole beans, cukes, cherry tomatoes and bitter gourds intermixed with climbing nasturtiums this way. We also have our "hop yard" close to the patio for the same reasons. Our patio is on the west side of the house and used to bake in the sun. I think our electric bill for summer cooling has come down considerably, and we spend much time sitting in this "green room" during pleasant evenings.
- June 3, 2010 at 1:52 PM
This year I have tomatos on the sunny side of the fence, and peas on the shady side.
We plant a ton of peas and eat them as greens early in the season, and then in-pod a little later, and dried peas at the end of their season - where there's space I co-plant them with zucchini, which doesn't need a ton of space til it gets hot out and the peas are done.
- June 3, 2010 at 3:28 PM
- String Theory said...
This year I only have a small deck for growing and I am growing beans and peas up the railings, as another poster said, I might see if they get big enough to to run up strings to the roof line for shade! I read someplace that the very cheap dried peas in the grocery store can be planted to grow for pea shoot greens, so today I had the kids plant up 70. A huge big bag was only a couple of dollars and if this works, then we will be in pea greens for a good long while!!! A timely article for me, looking forward to anymore thoughts you have on small spaces.
- June 3, 2010 at 7:46 PM
- Kate said...
Laura, yes, I surely have heard of them. Will post further on the garden as it progresses this year. Happy planting to you as well.
Sense of Home, 300 square feet is a good start for a home garden. You can grow a lot in that space. I almost think that an excess of space has made me lazy about using it all efficiently and succession planting. I'm also trying luffah on my fence this year. Just spotted three that germinated this morning!
Rachelle, 800 square feet is respectable for a garden, I think. But it's all relative. I hope you don't have a month of rain like we had last year. That was awful!
Dave all of our cane berries are up against fences too, even though they don't climb the way beans will. Very neighborly of you to share your fruit with those on the other side of the fence.
Jennifer, ah...hardly. I think maybe it's "tomorrow's trend, late the night before."
Anon, we have hops trained up against our house as well. Although they're growing well, so far they really aren't providing all that much shade. Maybe in future they'll get fuller, and give us more benefit.
Rosa, that's an interesting dual use of the fence. I hope it works out for you. I also like the co-planting - very smart.
Queen of string, I'd love to hear back on how the store-bought peas work out for you. I'm curious about the germination rates and how well they grow. But as you say, the big bag was cheap. So it seems like there's little to lose. Stay tuned. I have a few more ideas yet on small space food production, though you're probably already familiar with most of them if you pay any attention to such things.
- June 4, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- Joel said...
I happen to live in a place where runner beans are supposed to be perennial. I'm training vines from the top of my strawberry pot, and form the edge of my large herb pot, onto the wire fence at the edge of my patio.
Hopefully they'll over-winter a little better than the tomatoes did, but even if they have to re-grow from tubers, I'll be happy for a constant source of N in my perennial containers.
- June 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM
What a great idea!Thanks Kate. Definitely a 'Doh!' moment. I had a couple of bean plants spare, so I've now planted them in a little space between fruit trees on my south facing fence.
After all the crow/rook talk the other day, I visited a neighbour with a smallholding to swap some produce for plants, and he greeted me carrying an air rifle. A crow is stealing his duck eggs as soon as they're laid, so it's now officially war!
I told him about the crowbusters site, and he said he'd had rook and beef pie in a pub years ago. Apparently, it was tasty to start with, but then the beef flavour fades and you're left with a lingering aftertaste of rook. Safe to say, if he gets his crow, it won't be dinner! Maybe I could have it for the dogs? Don't think they're bothered about aftertastes!
I've also got a plucked and drawn pigeon in the fridge, courtesy of my tiddly little tabby cat. It was a huge wood pigeon, bigger than her, which she caught but for some reason didn't finish it off. It was badly injured, so another farming neighbour did the deed for me. It was really easy to pluck (I've tried plucking pheasant before, but they're so hard it's easier to skin them), so that's tea sorted! Despatching birds is on my 'learn how to do' list, as I've a feeling this won't be the last time I'm in this position.
A game-y few days!
- June 5, 2010 at 4:35 AM
- Joel said...
I've read some of Novella Carpenter's work, and she suggests long-handled pruning loppers (the sort you'd use to snip a 1" tree branch) are an easy & humane way to slaughter fowl.
- June 5, 2010 at 6:02 PM
Thanks Joel, I'll have a look.
It'd be a bit messy, though, I'd have thought?
I was so impressed with the neighbour who killed the pigeon. It was instantaneous and a minute movement. He definitely had the knack, which I suspect you have to practice a lot to get. The small holder friend uses a broomhandle and another person and says he'll show me that way too.
The pigeon was delicious, anyway, so Kate if you're going to have a pest problem with your corn I suggest you encourage pigeons rather than crows!
- June 6, 2010 at 1:36 AM
- Kate said...
Wow, your beans look awesome. I only have three plants this year in pots on the deck (rather than a trellis, they're growing around some tall sticks I placed in the pots), but I wish I had half as many as you. That's great that you make some to store, too!
- June 8, 2010 at 9:32 PM
I'm not sure I understand the use of the "other" side of the fence. Here most fences are _on_ the property line and considered co-owned. i.e. if the fence needs replacing the two neighbors split the costs.
I can't imagine planting on the other side of the fence, it would be in the neighbor's yard! Even if the fence is set back from the property line as you describe, it is still in the neighbor's "visual" space. What if they don't want to look at your beans all summer? Or what if they chose to plant something along the property line in their space that shaded, conflicted, or damaged your planting.
In the house I am living in currently there is no fence between me and my neighbor and although I am considering putting one there, I wouldn't plant edibles against it. They routinely poison their yard with chemicals, both seasonal fertilizers and monthly pest control.
Your beans do look great though. I'm growing some green beans and although they are not our favorite, they provide some variety. I've hesitated to do dried beans because of the problem you described of quantity needed.
Love your blog!
- June 10, 2010 at 9:51 AM
- Kate said...
Anon, sounds to me like you understand the concept fine, but it just won't work out in your situation. Our fence is not co-owned, we do have a set back, and the property to our south is essentially vacant so we needn't worry about sprays or the aesthetic preferences of the neighbors. Not every idea will work for everyone or in every situation. I just toss them out to whoever might be able to use them.
- June 10, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Katidids said...
We've a garden area about your size but I also have hanging pots on the deck with more tomatoes & another directly under...Redneck drip system LOL! Chives & herbs I have in long planter pots (love the fresh scent) & rubbermaid (homemade) earth boxes with extra squash and cukes. Potatoes are in 5 gal buckets. we're enlarging bits every year just trying not to bite off more than we can chew. My daughter has a old spindle headboard she uses in her garden for climbers, peas first then the beans. great space saver!
- June 10, 2010 at 11:32 PM
- Kate said...
Joel, you must live in a very mild climate. Perennial runner beans! That's quite a concept for me and I can see the appeal.
Hazel, I went and looked up what HFW had to say about rook. Apparently, they're not the same as our crows here, and the fledglings are the ones considered edible. "Branchers" they are called - birds big enough to leave the nest and go out on the limbs, but not yet competent fliers.
We don't have proper pigeons here, though they're in the nearby city. I don't think I'd eat those. The pale brown doves we have here aren't much of a nuisance, and I hope it stays that way. Besides, we'd need an awful lot of them to make them worth eating. Not like the lovely wood pigeons of Europe. Those look like they could provide a real meal.
Also, I second Joel's endorsement of Novella's book, Farm City.
- June 11, 2010 at 7:32 AM
- Kate said...
Katidids, I love hearing about what people use in their gardens, as trellises or for any other function. "Redneck drip system" is pretty funny too.
- June 11, 2010 at 7:34 AM
My family used to live on 20 acres and we had a HUGE garden, but we still used the vertical approach for peas, beans, cukes, and ornamental gourds. we discovered that cattle panels work WONDERFULLY!!! most feed stores have them. I believe they come in 6, 8, and 10 foot lengths. with some staking at the ends they can be bent into an arbor as well. Our wisteria crushed the wooden arbor that my dad had made, so we tried again with the metal cattle panel and as far as i know it's still there and supporting that dang wisteria! =) I love your blog and as a current apartment dweller I need all the ideas i can get about container, vertical, and small space plantings. Thanks!
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Post-internet Curating, Denver Style: An Interview with Carson Chan
Draft Urbanism, the core exhibition program in the latest edition of the Denver-based Biennial of the Americas, brings together practitioners in art, architecture, and film from across the Americas to examine our evolving relationship with the physical and social fabric of our cities. The biennial features a series of newly commissioned works in various public spaces throughout Denver, from breweries to highway medians. Carson Chan, architecture writer and curator, and co-founder of architecture collective Program (Berlin), is Executive Curator of this year's edition.
Carson Chan in Denver. Photograph: Anthony Camera.
KAREN ARCHEY: Draft Urbanism seems to be more inclusive and unique than your average biennial. Could you describe the curatorial purview and physical format of the biennial, and explain how it is a departure from the standard biennial (i.e. Lyon, Venice)? How does it relate to the biennial you organized in Marrakech last year?
Artist Profile: Lance Wakeling
A Tour of the AC-1 Transatlantic Submarine Cable (2011)
Your videos seem to borrow aspects from narrative filmmaking, the documentary format, amateur travelogues, and even at times experimental cinema. What genre(s) of filmmaking do you see yourself following or challenging?
Well, I don't really see my videos as being film. One time I tweeted that as an artist I would never let my video work get transferred to film because too much would be lost. It was a joke, but I'm also serious. I mean, it's hard not to be suspicious of a discipline that has a genre called "experimental."
From the perspective of how the work is displayed, I feel my videos are not for the cinema. The movie theater flattens space and immobilizes the viewer. I like that people have to stand in a gallery, that they enter and leave the video at random times.
This is quite hypothetical, however, because in practice, most of my work is viewed online, where the artist has even less control.
In your videos you pull images and clips from a variety of sources including Google Street View, web-based image searches, and your own self-shot footage. Your videos range from twenty to thirty minutes in length. How do you structure this footage with the essays that make up your screenplay? How long does it take you to finish a video?
For Christmas my sister gave me an image from a brain scan she took of a human hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for short- and long-term memory and spatial navigation. The hippocampus looks like a sea horse and its etymology reflects this. The functions of the hippocampus intrigue me.
During the making of A Tour of the AC-1 Transatlantic Submarine Cable I researched each location extensively ...
Wired Differently: Joel Holmberg at American Contemporary
Installation View: Joel Holmberg, Soft Laws (2013), American Contemporary, New York
If we look back at the community of artists associated with the surf club Nasty Nets, including John Michael Boling, Michael Bell-Smith, Aleksandra Domanović, Joel Holmberg, and Kevin Bewersdorf, to name a few, we'll see that they've continued on extremely heterogeneous paths. Some, such as John Michael Boling and Kevin Bewersdorf, have slowed down or halted their artistic practices to pursue careers in IT or other ventures, while others—say Aleksandra Domanović and Michael Bell-Smith—have enjoyed considerable success in the art market, both artists being represented by notable commercial galleries. Holmberg, the subject of this article, gained attention in 2010 for his existential-yet-slightly-trolling Legendary Account included in Free, curated by former Rhizome Executive Director Lauren Cornell. For Legendary Account, Holmberg asked the normally utilitarian Yahoo! Answers site questions such as "Does having a crummy day-job help stimulate your creativity?", "Is it possible to jet ski or sea doo in the dead sea?", or "How long does post-coital last?". Holmberg and Cornell exhibited blown-up, printed documentation of the account at the New Museum, and the account is now archived on Rhizome's Art Base.
Two years later, Holmberg studies at Yale's Master of Fine Arts Program and has launched his first commercial gallery exhibition in New York at American Contemporary (previously Museum 52) in NoHo. Holmberg's Soft Laws presents an array of sculpture divergent in size and material. We see a plaster-covered lamp shade, jib crane, fiberglass chair built on top of a filing cabinet, ceramic tile, pencil wall drawings, etc.—these works unified by their almost slapdash handmade nature and implicit sense of humor. While Holmberg's humor has always been prevalent in his oeuvre, the heightened, studio-born materiality of his newer work may seem something of a new thing. Like his humor, connecting the artist's process is his tendency to continually relate back to how our identities can be subsumed by clichés, platitudes, and larger systems of thought by the relationships and interactions that they script.
If Holmberg's Legendary Account sought to de-script the Yahoo! Answers format by introducing the site to an air of jocularity and existentialism, his new sculptural works in Soft Laws exaggerate and re-script common artistic materials as well as the popular characterization of the artist. Take the painterly Emotional Bioré (2012), one piece in a series of five large wall-mounted works using ceramic tile as a base with plaster pushed through back to front—mimicking, the artist says, the functionality of backlit digital screens. Sourcing sheets of tile that have yet to grouted, Holmberg considers the medium of the tile to be a scripted material that prompts the user's action (i.e., there are grooves between individual tiles, and they will only adhere to a surface if one grouts them, thus one must grout them. This effect isn't terribly unlike the act of posting a status update to social networking sites in order for it to be liked. For example, I'm going to post a photo of myself smiling on the beach so that my friends will confirm how relaxed and tan I look.) Holmberg douses the plaster composition's front with printer ink while it sets, imbuing it a saturated, CMYK feel. When splattered, the ink changes the topography of the plaster to appear similar to a lunar surface or Pollock-inspired drip, itself a scripted gesture pointing toward the bravado of the oft-drunk, late-Modernist abstract expressionist painter—perhaps pop culture's favorite portrayal of the romantic, tortured artist.
Joel Holmberg, Verner Panton Chair with Filing Cabinet (2012)
Between Early, Prime and Afternoon: Omer Fast at the Wexner Center
Installation view of Omer Fast: 2001/11 Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University
Courtesy of gb agency, Paris, and Arratia Beer, Berlin Photo: Mark Steele
"We were going for the 'faceless Modernism' look," says curator Christopher Bedford during a tour of the two-video exhibition "Omer Fast: 2001/2011" at Ohio State's Wexner Center. (I'd visited the Columbus museum days before Bedford's appointment as the Director of the Rose Museum at Brandeis University.) "We attempted to recreate the environment that one would inhabit while watching primetime news in 2001," he says, as we peruse the aesthetically innocuous, comically "normal" room surrounding Fast's 2002 video CNN Concatenated. "It all comes from Ikea," explains Bedford, "and we were actually a bit fearful that this lamp may be a bit too tasteful." The lamp looked like a rolled-up, bioluminescent albino armadillo, though surprisingly slightly tasteful. Nearby, a television sits center stage in a faux-mahogany entertainment set, an oversized silver ampersand "accent piece" next to it. From the television blares a jerky monologue enunciated by varying, always-pristine news anchors. Each individual word is a frame depicting a flash of a different newscaster—some reporting on 9/11—which are strung together to form sentences. (Hence "CNN Concatenated," the latter word meaning "to link together in a chain or series.") Fast utilizes a sort of supercut stylistically reminiscent of "The Clock," yet its source material is hundreds of hours of taped new programs throughout post-9/11 2001. Rapidly oscillating through various TV personalities, the monologue is distinctly divorced from anything a news anchor may usually utter:
Listen to me I want to tell you something
Come closer
Don't be upset and don't get emotional
Just get near me and pay attention please
Look, I know that you're scared
I know what you're afraid of
You mistrust your body
Lately it has been looking more and more foreign
It's been doing strange things
To Reveal While Veiling: On the 2012 Whitney Biennial
Installation view, Whitney Biennial (2012)
Looking back at the time in which I was beginning to study art, one could describe the motivations I shared with my peers as generally aspirational and humanitarian. We felt different. We wanted to change the world. We thought of the institution of art as a discipline in which alternative personalities flourish, critical thinking is lauded, and that creativity (in all of its various forms) is esteemed far more than financial privilege. Having participated in the art industry for a number of years, these ideas now seem not only naïve, but provide a blueprint for precisely how the art world does not operate; our collective wills becoming inured to the faux-radical, contradictory reality that the institution of art exists in today.
On the occasion of the 2012 Whitney Biennial, Andrea Fraser writes of the crisis of the art institution, "The glaring, persistent, and seemingly ever-growing disjunction between those legitimizing discourses [of art]—above all in their critical and political claims—and the social conditions of art generally…has appeared to me as profoundly and painfully contradictory, even as fraudulent." Her essay for the Biennial catalogue "There's no place like home," painstakingly delineates what she perceives to be the impossibility of participating in the institution of art in good conscience due to its compliant enrichment from the increasing financial inequality of the last decade. Acknowledging the fact that this inequity is precisely what art purports to act against, Fraser considers possible methods through which this quandary may be alleviated. She posits, almost fatalistically, that "Certainly it is less painful to resolve these conflicts symbolically, in artistic, intellectual, and even political gestures and position-takings, than to resolve them materially—to the marginal extent that it is within our power to do so in our own lives—with choices that would entail sacrifices and renunciations. Even these sacrifices may be preferable, for some, to the pain of wanting what we also hate, and hating what we also are and also love..." Heady prose for a biennial catalogue.
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K8 Hardy, May 20th, 2012 at 2012 Whitney Biennial
Taking Fraser's essay as preamble, 2012 Whitney Biennial co-curators Jay Sanders and Elizabeth Sussman have approached the nearly insurmountable task of surveying the art of the last two years by symbolic rather than material means...


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Gold exchange robbery turns violent
No arrests made in Jan. 2 attack
The high price of gold has many people trying to cash in but for a 61-year-old man and his son, a trip to exchange their gold for some badly-needed cash ended in a violent attack.
On Jan. 2, Gold and Silver Exchange owner David Casle said he did some business with an old friend and the man's son.
Castle said he paid the pair nearly $900 for the things they sold.
What happened next truly frightened Castle.
"Somebody with greedy eyes was in here and saw them, followed them home, and robbed them," Castle said.
The 61-year-old victim spoke with Action 7 News via telephone and said he fears for his safety.
The man said once he and his son arrived at their apartment, two men approached them in the parking lot and started attacking them. One of the men was armed with a knife.
According to the police report, the officer saw a stab wound on the son's hand and the older victim had a bloody nose.
The men told the officer they recognized the robbers from the Gold and Silver Exchange.
Castle's surveillance cameras caught the suspects on video and he turned everything over to police. The store also had a copy of the suspect's ID.
Castle said he reimbursed his friend the $900.
"They hurt him. They did him physical harm and they took his money. He was devastated because he really needed that money bad," Castle said.
So far, no arrests have been made but police are reviewing store records and the surveillance video.


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The Whitney Museum artport has been an important institutional presence in net art and new media since its launch in 2002. Created and curated by Christiane Paul, artport features online commissions as well as documentation of new media artworks from the museum's exhibitions and collections. This year, artport as a whole was made an official part of the Whitney Museum collection; to mark this occasion, participating artist Marisa Olson interviewed Paul about the program's history and evolution over thirteen years.
Douglas Davis, image from The World's First Collaborative Sentence (1994).
Collections like artport are a rare and valuable window onto a field of practice that, in some senses, was borne out of not being taken seriously. From mid-80s Eastern European game crackers to late-90s net artists, the first people working online were often isolated, by default or design, and were certainly marginalized by the art world, where few curators knew of their existence and fewer took them seriously, advocated for them, or worked to theorize and articulate the art historical precedents and currents flowing through the work. Help me fast-forward to the beginning of this century at one of the most important international art museums. Many of the US museums that funded new media projects did so with dot-com infusions that dried-up after 2000. Artport officially launched in 2001; the same year, you curated a section devoted to net art in the Whitney Biennial. What was the behind-the-scenes sequence of events that led to artport's founding?
I think artport's inception was emblematic of a wave of interest in net art in the US around the turn of the century and in the early 2000s. This more committed involvement with the art form interestingly coincided with or came shortly after the dot com bubble, which inflated from 1997–2000, had its climax on March 10, 2000 when NASDAQ peaked, and burst pretty much the next day. Net art, however, remained a very active practice and started appearing on the radar of more US art institutions. To some extent, their interest may have been sparked by European exhibitions that had begun to respond to the effects of the web on artistic practice earlier on. In 1997, Documenta X had already included web projects (that year the Documenta website was also famously "stolen"—that is, copied and archived—by Vuk Cosic in the project Documenta: done) and Net Condition, which took place at ZKM in 1999/2000, further acknowledged the importance of art on the web.
US museums increasingly began to take notice. Steve Dietz, who had started the Walker Art Center's New Media Initiatives early on, in 1996, was curating the online art Gallery 9 and digital art study collection. Jon Ippolito, in his role as Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim, was commissioning net art in the early 2000s and in 2002, Benjamin Weil, with Joseph Rosa, unveiled a new version of SFMOMA's E-space, which had been created in 2000. This was the institutional netscape in which I created artport in 2001, since I felt that the Whitney, which had for the first time included net art in its 2000 Biennial, also needed a portal to online art. The original artport was much more of a satellite site and less integrated into whitney.org than it is now. Artist Yael Kanarek redesigned the site not too long after its initial launch and created version 1.1. Artport in its early days was sponsored by a backend storage company in New Jersey, which was then bought by HP, so HP appeared as the official sponsor. I think it is notable that sponsorship at that point did not come from a new tech company but a brand name that presumably wanted to appear more cutting edge.


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I am throwing not one, but two holiday parties this year at my house. I don't know why I do it to myself, but there it is. Needless to say, I've already started planning, because I like to do it up right.
Marie Claire actually has a helpful little party planner guide, and while flipping through it I found a whole mess (that's myspeak for a "whole bunch") of holiday cocktail recipes. I'll be trying some of these out for my party. This is one of them.
Tinsel Bellini
- 2 oz. HPNOTIQ
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- 1 oz. champage or sparkling white wine
- splash of lime juice
Rim the Champagne Flute with a light coat of sugar. Pour chilled HPNOTIQ, Limoncello and Champagne into the champagne flute. Add a splash of lime juice.
And before you ask me about the champagne flute above, the answer is, I don't know. But I did find some that are very similar (you'll have to tie on the pretty silver string). Check out the Schott Zwiesel Pure Tritan Crystal Champagne Flutes Set of 6 on Amazon. Pretty!


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As more and more of us move to laptops and all-in-one desktop machines, one of the things we lose is the ability to easily upgrade and repair our computers. Ever tried to replace a graphics card on a laptop or troubleshoot a problem on an all-in-one with a display the size of living room TV? Not a whole lot of fun. HP has addressed this issue of easy access with their Z1 Workstation.
The Z1 is a suitably muscular workstation, with a quadcore Xeon CPU, high-performance graphics hardware and display, and other features you'd want in a workstation, but the stand-out feature, and why it's nominated here, is its (literal) openness. It's designed for easy access and to have its components swapped out. We also applaud HP for their "toolless design" which allows you to swap out all of the user-serviceable components without the need of any tools. Having any computer not being easily upgradeable is a drag, but it's a requirement of a workstation. We hope this design (and this nomination) inspires other companies to think about designing all-in-ones (especially consumer-grade machines) and laptops with this type of sensible access. This nominee was suggested to us by our friends at iFixit. They gave it a perfect 10 repair score in their teardown coverage, their first 10/10 ever.
The MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards (aka The Makeys) is our annual award series and ceremony honoring mainstream companies that serve the interests of makers and the maker movement. Between now and World Maker Faire (NYC, Sept 29-30) we'll be nominating and profiling companies in a series of posts. Then our readers will vote on their favorites and the winners will receive Makey Awards at a glamorous ceremony (OK, a ceremony) at the Faire. See the Makeys landing page for more info, the four nomination categories, and a list of last year's finalists and winners. And please share your potential nominee ideas in the comments below. Remember, this is for mainstream commercial companies who, in some way(s), serve or embody the maker spirit. We want this program to hold up and celebrate them to encourage them and others to better serve the interests of our community.


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In her best-selling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein outlines the disturbing trend of governments using crisis as a means for corporate profit-advancement. She cites Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and Pinochet's Chile as examples of the practice.
At her January 29 speaking engagement at Loyola University, the award-winning author made the case that America's current economic crisis is just another "big bang moment" in this evolution.
Klein cautioned listeners at the packed 750-seat Mundelein Auditorium against cheerily consenting to the wave of Obama-fueled optimism. Throughout his campaign, Obama rejected the "worn out dogmas" and suggested it was time for an ideological sea change. Klein isn't ready, however, to embrace the recent market interventions as a shift in American policy, and instead implored her audience to work for a deepening, rather than deadening, of democracy in these tense economic times.
The concept of an American version of The Shock Doctrine is predicated upon two basic principles: panic forces the electorate to search out paternalistic political policy; and the resulting distraction stifles public debate.
These conditions nudge the collective American eye off the ball, allowing politicians to "override the will of the electorate." Disillusionment creates what Klein called a "temporary democracy free zone." She argued that the recent economic panic is an explicit example of The Shock Doctrine and she termed the $700 billion bailout the "greatest heist in modern history."
With a total of more than $7 trillion in estimated corporate handouts so far, the world is witnessing the largest transfer of wealth in history. Congress has opened the federal wallet to the financial and automotive sectors, justifying unregulated corporate welfare with warnings of economic collapse, frozen credit markets, and rampant unemployment. This "no-strings-attached" federal policy, orchestrated by former Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson, offers a disturbing illustration of domestic shock doctrine in action.
Klein said that the recent actions of Paulson and company fly in the face of democracy. She revealed that Paulson began working on the bailout in secret six months prior to its sudden announcement just before the election. She added that a federal willingness to hand out taxpayer funds to banks with no prerequisite lending requirements has not only failed to unfreeze the credit markets, it has put massive pressures on public "entitlements."
In her speech, Klein quoted bank CEOs who referred to the bailout as a "cushion" and an "insurance policy," clearly defining their intent for use of the funds. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's successful enforcement of lending increases in the U.K. version of the bailout clearly shows that it is possible to use built-in regulation to thaw credit markets.
While federal bureaucrats exhibit an obvious aversion for corporate micromanagement, they have eagerly restricted the rights of workers. During negotiations for the auto industry bailout, Congress forced the United Auto Workers to roll back its members' pay to non-union levels prior to releasing funds. Klein remarked that it was odd that they "got this one in writing" after failing to do so with the lending increases from banks.
After issuing caution, Klein offered the Loyola audience cause for optimism and a few possible solutions to the current shock doctrine policies. The author's democracy-reclamation project begins with campaign finance reform. She framed the current economic atmosphere as a dichotomy of people power versus the corporate lobby, with the business set holding a stated advantage until election financing is made more equitable.
Klein's next step is the nationalization of America's banks. Her argument is simple: These private entities have already proved themselves failures within the market. If the banks are not viable, don't throw money at them - nationalize. After bailouts, Klein pointed out, both Citigroup and Bank of America actually received more in federal gifts than their total market value.
The U.S. financial industry has been effectively nationalized by the bailout, but Klein said the banks are "encouraged to pretend they're still private" because, otherwise, shareholders would lose their stakes. She posed the rhetorical question, if private banks knew how to effectively conduct business would this economic crisis exist in the first place? She also pointed out that U.S. taxpayers failed to receive even one seat on the Boards of Directors of any of the banks that have been aided by bailout funds.
Klein advocates green investment in industrial infrastructure as the follow-up to the nationalization of banks. As factories go under in today's economic maelstrom, she argued that government-directed "green audits" should take place to discern the cost of environmental retrofitting the failing shops.
If entrepreneurs are unwilling to take on these costs, Klein suggests that the federal government divert wasteful corporate subsidies and make a national investment in environmentally friendly production. She identifies this as the kind of bold action that would bolster employment and have positive ecological impacts. She posited a local case, the recently shuttered Republic Windows and Doors, as an exemplary instance of need for this "green-audit" policy.
Lastly, Klein encouraged the proliferation of democracy in the workplace. She argued that democratically run workers' cooperatives offer an egalitarian alternative to today's corporate hierarchy. As examples, she cited the success of the Argentinean co-ops portrayed in The Take, a film she made with her husband Avi Lewis.
She also came out strongly in favor of other policies to extend the social safety net so thoroughly picked apart since the Reagan administration. She insisted that it is time for a health care system "that covers every person in the country, and the model that works is single payer health care." Her view matched the sentiments of the local Transition Team Health Forums reported on in the last edition of The Urban Coaster, and her comments were loudly cheered throughout the auditorium.
Klein closed an excellent speech with a deeply relevant anecdote harking back to the New Deal era. President Franklin Roosevelt was well known for maintaining a dialogue with the electorate. At town-hall style meetings, Roosevelt would hear his political base's calls for change and challenge them to "go out and make me do it" - effectively admonishing the public to force his hand on policy.
Klein positioned President Obama as an executive caught in a tug-o-war between corporate and democratic interests, and one who needs to be pushed as FDR was. She stated that, "one scandal at a time, government has failed to extract any kind of meaningful reform." She's hopeful that the American public can remove government from its current position as a "corporate valet."
Klein is optimistic that due to its repeated use around the world, the affected are becoming resistant to the arguments for shock doctrine policy. She said that, "if we want a healthier, more just, and more peaceful world we must go out there and make them do it." And she urged readers, listeners, and interested voters around the world to go about that by demanding "war-levels of funding to fight Global Warming, exploitative health care, inequality, and poverty."


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Go West Young Meowth (ニャースのあいうえお Meowth's ABCs) is the 72nd episode of Pokémon: Indigo League.
Being invited to Hollywood, the heroes go to see the premiere of the movie they made with Cleavon. Meanwhile, Meowth remembers his past and encounters his gang. Refusing to join them, he sees his beloved, Meowzie and declares he will go to free her. Will he deserve the love he needed by defeating Persian, the leader?
Episode plot
In the morning, Ash, Pikachu and Brock train, though Misty thinks they are only seen with the TV remote. As Delia and Mimey tend the garden, the postman gives them a letter and they see the initiation for the premiere. Misty and Brock imagine themselves at Hollywood, while Ash is depressed, as he needs to train for the League. Misty, Brock and Ash's mom remind him, so Ash is persuaded to go with them to the premiere. Elsewhere, Jessie and James think about going to Hollywood to become famous, while Meowth is skeptical, as he does not want to think about that place.
Meowth remembers that he was alone and hungry. When he saw people playing baseball, he attempted to eat the balls (since he imagined they were doughnuts), but knocked the can over and got tied to a tree by the players. He cried, but saw a movie on the same field, where it presented fried chicken and ice cream. Knowing that it was delicious, he freed himself and went to Hollywood. He remembers that he got on a truck and saw a light. In Hollywood, Ash, his mum, Brock and Misty imagine themselves in Hollywood, but see the reality, as it is a dump. They go to a theatre, from where Cleavon appears. Though Jessie and James spy on them, Meowth leaves them, telling them he needs to care of some "business".
He comes to a hot dog stand and remembers that he took some fried chicken from the restaurant and got chased. Coming into an alley, he spot some Meowth and a Persian. They gave him some fish, to which he accepted. Next day, the Meowth stole the fried chicken and his life in Hollywood got better, but he lacked love. Someday, he saw a beautiful female Meowth and fell in love. Carelessly, he crossed the street, causing a major car accident, but got out unhurt. He got to her, and while she didn't care much, her owner came and pounded him with her umbrella. The owner displayed to the female Meowth a Poké Ball decorated with diamonds, which the female Meowth loved. Meowzie, the female Meowth, told him he is not human or rich, but a street Meowth, then she was called back to her owner. He promised to become human enough to have her attention.
He came to ballet lessons and began walking on two feet. When he got the fried chicken, he was busted by the chef, which got him a new experience to crawl. Still, he did not give up and taught himself how to speak like a human. Time passed and he learned how to speak and was very happy about it since repeating: "She sells seashells by the seashore." He returned to Meowzie and displayed her his progress, but Meowzie considered him a freak with no money, crushing him. Meowth promised to get rich, which is why he joined Team Rocket, but his dream did not come true. After the story, he encounters his old gang, the Meowth and the Persian. Jessie and James wait for Meowth to come and see him with the gang. They offer him to join back the gang. Though Meowth refuses, he soon sees Meowzie with them. Meowzie explains that her owner left her one day, as she ran out of money, but Persian came and offered her a spot in the gang, which she had to accept.
Upon hearing, Meowth decides to free her. The Persian and the other Meowth come to attack him, but Jessie and James appear and explain they are here to defend him, as they send Weezing and Arbok. Weezing's Smog chases Persian's Meowth away, leaving Persian. Meowth and Persian attack each other, and while Meowth got a scratch, Persian got defeated. Meowth goes to get Meowzie, but she goes to Persian. Meowth translates she is sticking with Persian, as he cared for her and considers Meowth as a freak. Meanwhile, the heroes saw the movie, but aren't impressed much, as they did not see themselves in it. Cleavon responds he had to cut them, as it is a movie about Pokémon and invited them since nobody else wanted to come. Team Rocket appear chanting, saying they only came to chant and disappear. Ash, Brock and Misty do not like this, as they say goodbye to their showbiz careers. Pikachu liked it.
At the end, Meowth looks at the moon and wonders if Meowzie is looking to the moon as well, then lowers his head down.
- "Go west, young Meowth, go west, to Hollywood!" - Meowth
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Onix.
- When the heroes imagined the glory of Hollywood, Delia made a pose where her skirt was blown away by the wind. This is a reference to Marilyn Monroe.
- In this episode Meowth is holding a real-life fish in his mouth.
Dub Differences
- In the dub the baseball coach speaks directly to Meowth after tying him to the tree, saying "Bad Meowth! You deserve to be punished!". In the original version he doesn't speak directly to Meowth and says "Punishment for a naughty Meowth!".
- In the original version Meowzie claims that Meowth who walks upright and speaks the human language is disgusting. In the dub, she calls Meowth a freak.
|Pokémon the Series: The Beginning
|Other series: Gold and Silver · Ruby and Sapphire · Diamond and Pearl · Black & White · XY and XYZ · Sun & Moon · Journeys


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Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios) is one of the development studios under the Rockstar Games umbrella. In the beginning, they first made some games for the Nintendo Entertainment System using the Super Sentai licence, it was unusual that Angel, an American game developer, would be developing games for Japan. They are also the developers behind the games Red Dead Revolver and it's hugely successful 'spiritual sequel' Red Dead Redemption as well as the racing series' Midnight Club and Midtown Madness and the adventure series Smuggler's Run.
Angel Studios was founded in 1984, making mostly Japanese games. Rockstar Games acquired the company in 2002 and the first game the newly-named Rockstar San Diego made was Midnight Club II in 2003.
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- Choujin Sentai Jetman
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Good morning everyone! thanks to all those who played along with us for the month of April. You ladies had some awesome entries. I would love to send each of you a prize for playing but as luck would have it I can so I have to select one. This month's winner of our sponsored prize is.................Chas!
Congrats Chaz! Please contact Kerys via LGS email to claim your prize. You have seven days to claim your prize or it is forfeited. Remember ladies, you can't win if you don't play!
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Penguins Acquire Forward Brenden Morrow and a 2013 Third-Round Draft Pick from Dallas in Exchange for Joe Morrow and a 2013 Fifth-Round Draft Pickby Staff Writer / Pittsburgh Penguins
Brenden Morrow, 34, has appeared in 29 games this season with the Stars, scoring six goals, five assists and 11 points while serving as the team's captain.
The 6-foot, 205-pound Morrow has spent his entire 13-year career with the Stars, tallying 243 goals, 285 assists, 528 points and a plus-79 rating in 835 career games. He has added 42 points (17G-25A) in 78 career postseason contests.
A native of Carlyle, Saskatchewan, Morrow helped the Stars advance to the Stanley Cup Final in 2000, notching six points (2G-4A) in 21 postseason games that spring. During his most recent postseason experience in 2007-08, Morrow helped the Stars advance to the conference final by scoring 15 points (9G-6A) in 18 playoff games.
Originally drafted by the Stars in the first round (25th overall) of the 1997 NHL Draft held at the Civic Arena, Morrow has reached double digits in goals in each of his first 12 seasons, including seven 20-goal campaigns and twice hitting the 30-goal mark. Morrow has surpassed the 40-point plateau seven times.
Morrow's best season in Dallas came in 2007-08 when he tallied 32 goals and 42 assists for a career-high 74 points in 82 games. In 2010-11, he established a career high with 33 goals.
Brenden Morrow has represented Team Canada internationally several times, including the 2010 Winter Olympics when he helped the Canadians win a gold medal while playing with new teammates Sidney Crosby and Marc-Andre Fleury. He has also played for Canada in four World Championships and the 2005 World Cup of Hockey.


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August 16, 2018 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm
This week: Centennial Cone
This is a SHOW AND GO ride. Meet up at the trailhead and go have fun. This is a BYOB and food ride! So if you want to have a beer and eat something, bring it.
When we return from the ride, please take a minute to police the parking lot area for garbage left by others. Let's give back to the parks and leave them a little cleaner than when we arrived!
How we roll! We will break into a few different groups. Race pace group will ride out ahead of the rest (No Angry Strava Nazis!). Fun group will roll out and regroup at the intersections. Social group will ride at their own pace and may decide to change routes due to time restraints. Try to ride with someone new, or someone slow, or someone who has never been here before, or someone new to Mt. Biking. It's getting dark around 7:30 so you will want to Bring Lights just in case of a mechanical, in fact, go grab your lights and put them in the charger now so you don't forget. Remember to practice trail etiquette and be nice to others. We may have grills in the parking lot for the after ride festivities. Bring your Brats, Burgers, and Beers, and jackets and chairs, or refreshments for enjoying after the ride. If the ride gets rained out we will visit a local brewery for libations.
We love our Thursday night tradition and want to keep it going for years to come. So we need to make sure we observe some common sense guidelines so that we don't become a source of complaints to park officials. We don't know of any complaints to date so let's keep it that way!
– We are guests at the park. Even though we're sometimes a big group, we don't own the place.
– Share the trail and observe good trail etiquette. If you are new to riding, ask the ride leader for a quick primer!
– Don't block traffic in the parking lot.
– Ride leaders will provide trash bags, so be sure to use them. Please do not place trash on the ground even if you intend to pick it up later!
– To avoid attracting wildlife, throw peanut shells away in the trash bags and not on the ground.
– Be careful with glass containers (like your beer bottles).
– Leave the park cleaner than when we arrived!
– Be welcoming and inclusive to strangers, and be respectful to other trail users (yes, even runners, hikers, fisherman and equestrians).
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Manekinen has come up with this home-brew spot welder that's powered by a guitar amp transformer. It produces 2.6V at 1kA and can make clean spot welds between two pieces of steel up to .75 mm thick.
The device is enclosed in an old computer power supply box and has safeguards built into the electronics. A limit switch gives a delay before the welder turns on so the user can get his/her pieces in place. Also, a potentiometer varies the time of each weld between one and four seconds depending on the material being used. A BT138 Triac closes the primary circuit but Manekinen suggests using something more rugged for the job. There are more detailed instructions on the project at his site if you want to try it yourself.
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NCI program could set a template for using a technology whose time has come
The use of digital certificates for signing electronic documents is a technology whose time has come, said Peter Alterman, senior adviser for strategic initiatives at the National Institutes of Health.
"If someone were to ask my advice on implementing it, I would say, 'What took you so long?' " Alterman said. "It's not resource-intensive, and the payoff is substantial."
Alterman gained his experience with the process through a pilot program with Bristol-Myers Squibb at the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program. The test uses existing technology, including the government's Personal Identity Verification card and identity trust bridges established by the government and biopharmaceutical industry, to enable the use of digital signatures.
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"I'm going to encourage NCI to take the pilot into full production," Alterman said. In addition to saving time and money, "this is a remarkably green initiative" that saves reams of paper not needed for written signatures.
The technology needed to implement digital signatures is available and mature, he said. The challenge to such a program is convincing leadership to make the change from file cabinets full of documents with ink-on-paper signatures to databases that contain digital signatures.
"You have to have management buy-in and support," he said. By starting small and picking the low-hanging fruit, health care leaders can start the process of change.
Alterman said he expects the NCI cancer program to become the poster child for future digital signature initiatives and predicted that paperless processes would be the normal operating mode for agencies within 10 years.
He cautions that he also predicted in a 1976 essay that fusion reactors would become our primary energy source by the year 2000. That has not worked out so well. But he said he has a really good feeling about digital signatures.
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Would you get married, start a business, or do a parachute jump on Friday the 13th? Most of us would not consciously admit we give this day any real regard and yet, a little anxiety crosses our path like the shadow of a black cat on Friday the 13th.
Superstitions around this day all started with a Norse myth about twelve gods having a feast in Valhalla. The god, Loki crashed the party as an uninvited 13th guest. He set up Hod, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Baldur, the god of joy and gladness. A mistletoe-tipped arrow took Baldur out and the earth lost its joy and gladness. It was indeed a dark day.
Another superstition is based on the historic feast when Jesus invited his twelve disciples to their last dinner together. It was there that Judas was identified as Jesus' betrayer and that led to Jesus' death on a cross on a Friday, now considered Good Friday or Black Friday.
Dan Brown brought some of this chilling, yet superstitious tradition to light in his book, The DaVinci Code, about the Knights Templar. It is believed that thousands of them were arrested and killed on a Friday in 1313.
So much for traditions! Life as we know it is affected in other ways by this date. Airlines avoid having a 13th row, and elevators often don't have a 13th floor. For some reason, we don't create 13 step programs, or a top 13 list. We like things to happen in round numbers. We think numbers are luckier when they come in 10s or 12s. And yet, what about lucky number 7?
On the other hand, if you were born on a Friday the 13th, it is your lucky day. You don't have to throw salt over your shoulder before you go to work, or carry a rabbit's foot in your pocket, because life will simply shine for you that day.
Maybe it's time to reengineer Friday the 13th…give it an upturn, make it a day for eternal optimists. May brings the only Friday the 13th this year. Let's send cards full of lucky thoughts and warm wishes. Let's bring Baldur back to life and spread the joy and gladness. Go on, get married. Make a soufflé! Tempt the fates. Just don't invite 12 close friends for dinner.


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Who has ever made a cluster typedef, then added some elements, then added more, then a little more? Have you noticed the "typedef explosion" of your block diagram as a result, with constants overlapping other code? Make a right-click option to "link" a bundle by name to a typedef. Note that the two pieces of code below would be identical, but the bundle on left would not suffer from typedef explosion. In addition, have a selectable menu
Another idea is to link the bundle to the destination:
Personally I don't like the idea of 'linking' to a type def since it would be hard to no which type def you are linked to.
However, I do hate the 'explosions' as well, especially if you have painfully auto arranged all the clusters in the typedef to be horizontal and when you make a change to the type def (don't even have to add an item) it defaults back to vertical arrangement.
You can get around that and the amount of space that they take up by selecting the constant and creating a SubVI for it. That way you can give it a nice icon,and if you set the VI properties to re-entrant/pre-allocate you can use it multiple times and set you constant values in the subVI.
This is a little time consuming so I only do it for really large clusters but if that functionality could be automated it would be perfect.
I think Lavezza has the most elegant solution yet - better than my original proposal. The icon would feed the "input cluster" terminal of the unbundle, and the icon would compile down as efficiently as a BD constant.
Double clicking on the icon would bring up the editor window that allows editing of the constants. This way, each icon could have its own initialization, not just the default values for the cluster.
tst - true, the initial values would be hidden. Let's say hovering over the icon would bring up the initial values in Context Help. I would rather live with this than Typedef Explosion.
We just need a way to take CTL file default values OR provide custom values values (maybe a right click option with check mark) when this is implemented. In any case, we're talking about gaining since a developer can still revert to the old method when applicable.
This could be implemented well along with Add block diagram design for typedefs.
I also use the subvi idea, it's okay for huge clusters but takes time to create.
I dont think it's possible to adapt to a polymorphic destination.
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